Literary Devices
This literary device involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
Personification, Alliteration, or Connotation
What is Alliteration?
The turning point in a narrative when the conflict reaches its peak.
Climax, Rising Action, or Resolution
What is the Climax?
This term refers to the process of reasoning to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word based on surrounding text.
Context Clues, Guessing, or Identification
What is Context Clues?
This term describes a direct or indirect reference to another text, person, or event in literature.
Reference, Allusion, or Exposition
What is an Allusion?
A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (e.g., prose, poetry)
Genre, Form, or Hyperbole
What is the Genre?
This occurs when a writer compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
Simile, Metaphor, or Alliteration
What is a Metaphor?
This part of the plot involves the resolution of the conflicts and complications, following the climax.
Rising Action, Falling Action, Resolution
What is the Falling Action?
This word refers to a word that has an opposite meaning to another word.
Synonym, Antonym, or Connotation
What is an Antonym?
A small and hard-to-find presence of positive or negative attitudes that influence a piece of writing is known as this.
Bias, Honesty, or Lying
What is Bias?
Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact.
Fiction, Nonfiction, or Lying
Fiction
This technique is used to create a sensory experience by describing something in a way that appeals to the senses.
Mood, Imagery or tone
What is Imagery?
This literary element is the sequence of events in a story that leads up to the climax.
Falling Action, Rising Action, Climax
What is the Rising Action?
This is a word or phrase with a broad or hidden meaning that goes beyond its dictionary definition.
Connotation, Synonym, or Antonym
What is Connotation?
When the author reveals information about characters indirectly through their actions, speech, or thoughts, it is called this.
Storytelling, Characterization, or Experience
What is Characterization?
Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work.
Speaking, Dialogue, or Discussion
What is Dialogue?
A recurring subject or theme in a literary work, often serving as a unifying idea.
Irony, Motif, Hyperbole
What is a Motif?
A struggle between characters or forces, often leading to the main event of the story.
Contrast, Conflict, or Fight
What is Conflict?
This is the term for a literary genre that involves real people, events, or facts written in a narrative or storytelling style.
Fiction, Nonfiction, or News Article
What is Nonfiction?
This type of language uses exaggerated terms to make a point, often for emphasis.
Lying, Hyperbole, or Personification
What is Hyperbole?
A written account of another person's life.
Autobiography, Biography, or Diary
What is a Biography?
When an object or abstract idea is given human qualities or form, this literary device is being used.
Simile, Personification, or Exaggeration
What is Personification?
A character who symbolically represents abstract qualities such as justice, envy, or love is called this.
Friendly, Universal, or Just
What is a Universal Character?
The term for a situation in which the expected outcome is different from what actually happens, often used to create humor or surprise.
Fiction, Irony, or Climax
What is Irony?
When an author tells the audience something indirectly or leaves it to be understood by the reader, this is called what?
Direct Meaning, Implicit Meaning, or Unclear Meaning
What is Implicit Meaning?
The position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook from which the events are depicted (e.g., first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, etc).
Climax, Alliteration, or Point of View
What is Point of View?